April 14, 2014

WE MIGHT AS WELL REPEAL THE CIVIL SERVICE LAWS AND GO TO A SPOILS SYSTEM; THEY’VE BEEN POLITICIZED ALREADY: Complaint suggests HUD may have inappropriately promoted Obamacare. “Political priorities do not authorize agencies or the White House to violate appropriations law by taking agencies off of their congressionally mandated tasks.”

This has the focus on exactly the wrong area. It's not that they were inappropriately promoting Obamacare. It is that they were reducing the assistance they give housing assistance to the poor and to redevelop embattled cities in order to illegally divert resources to a different program in excess of what was appropriated by Congress.

It's easy as pie to frame this in terms that are no-win for the left wingers. It's par for the course that this is not how the protest against this activity is being framed.

Remember, the left always robs Peter to pay Paul. That applies to government programs too. Don't focus on Paul getting unjust extras but rather the robbery of Peter.

There is no need for a Hatch Act in a Spoils System bureaucracy, as everyone knows who stands where.Of course, what they will be allowed to do would be severely constricted to the immediate concerns of the victor.Just think, a bureaucracy totally responsive to the will of the President - Or Else!

That, and dramatically reduce the autonomy of all Executive branch agencies. If they can't spend their budgets legally and responsibly, then they don't get a budget. They get an allowance, a specific, fixed amount given to the agency on a monthly basis which includes payroll.. Overspend, and people don't get paid. If the rank-and-file who allow illegal activity to happen without reporting it really want a paycheck, then they'd better keep their agency in line.

From the evidence and the facts, we are living under a spoils system of government. Government jobs go to those who are connected in some way. Once in those jobs, if you play the game, you move up the ladder and become a made man.

Come to think of it, it's more of a protection racket. If you don't haven enough money to buy a politician, or ten or twelve, you're screwed.

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